The Golden Bough — One-Volume Abridgement

The one-volume abridgement of *The Golden Bough* was prepared by Sir James George Frazer himself in 1922 from the third-edition twelve-volume work, with the aim of making the substance of his life's research accessible to a general readership. The abridgement has remained in continuous print since and is the form in which the *Golden Bough* has been most widely read. This edition reproduces the standard public-domain text in full.